August - How RIOT Balances OBSCURE CHAMPIONS (TARIC)

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[dominikkowalczyk]

Taric is a team reliant character in a team-based game, in which team-reliance is the worst quality. Being self-sufficient is the strongest quality a champion can have(even in competetive, where team-reliant champions should shine), we have seen this during this year's worlds and it is really sad. Don't know if there is a way this could get changed, but competent teamwork with team-reliant champions, should be rewarded more than with the self-sufficient ones. But this can't happen since side lane presence is more important than ever and it forces at least 2 self sufficient champions per team.(one for each side lane).

[OlafJorigson]

His passive feels like she should be played as a bruiser but his kit feels great with engage champs. In any way, he doesn't feel right with "play along ADCs"

[georgecodreanu]

Taric's problem is that he is a high skill low reward champion. His kit has clear ways to play around when you face him and you are a skilled player which makes him unrewarding in higher elo, but his playstyle is not easily apparent, and has a difficult kit to effectively use if you are a low elo player. He is high risk which makes him unpopular among enchanter support players. His ultimate, while very powerful, requires more ability from the Taric player to use properly, than it requires from the opponent to counter properly. This puts him in a very difficult spot to enjoy from a gameplay perspective.

He's really fun in urf tho

[VenerabIe]

The answer is Taric ultimate. Extremely good, does not feel nearly as good to use as it actually is, and it absorbs an insane amount of the power budget. Gut Taric ultimate and make the Taric you're playing 90% of the time an actually agentic and capable champion. Then people would be playing him.

Source: (former) GM Taric top otp who just wants to be able to smack the shit out of people and drain tank like it's s9 again and have that be okay

[JustATotalNerd]

I love taric, but he struggles from an identity crisis. He has all the weaknesses of a bruiser with almost none of the strengths, and his enchanter identity keeps him from having insane damage outputs. His E is also extremely easy to outplay and since its his only engage/outplay tool he's down to relying on his base heals and shields. If the enemy is smart enough to not let you smack them freely spamming qs then you're left feeling completely useless.

Then there's his ult. Extremely powerful if a teamfight blows up, but your team needs to
A) notice that youre dropping ult and get near you or your tethered ally to get the value from it
B) not die before the ult actually goes into effect
C) actually engage properly when it is in effect, too often i see my teammates run away invincible only to turn around and die when it wears off.
Since this ult is so freaking strong it's balanced with a long timer and by gimping all of his other skills and base stats to make him mediocre at all his jobs.

Tl;dr
Taric wants to be a tank but he's not tanky
He wants to be a bruiser but he's not tough
He wants to be an enchanter but his utility is reliant on him staying in fights and guzzling mana.

I love taric but idk how to fix him

[julianhugen]

The only problem that I see on Taric is that nobody on low elo know what he does, and you really need your team knowing what he does to be able to play properly.

[jasonyang]

I don't wanna live the sheer tomfoolery that master yi and taric just does

[glenndiddy]

Taric might need a swain esque midscope. Keep the abilities basically the same as they are, but just make them work better for Taric even if his ally doesn't cooperate with the stun angle etc

[Operamatt]

I like how taric jungle is slept on, he feels strong because people don’t know how to deal with him, I stomp games because everyone wants to duel early. I don’t think he’s that strong a champ, just a lot of utility so I don’t want any crazy changes right now

[monkeymansungoku]

Raise the play rate. Taric adc press the attack with iceborn gauntlet specifically w/ pyke support. Loses to crazy ap bot like brand and Morgana.

[TheBroGamer]

Idk if this is entirely related but Taric is fond memory for me as he's the one enemy champion I remember facing during my first game of League. I was playing Ezreal and when I first saw him I thought "who is this Fabio looking dude" and have stuck with calling him fabio ever since.

[keithl]

Make him the herald of ASol. Give him Asol's old spinning orbs as a passive. QWER occur within the spinning orbs that appear around you and your paired target with W. Done.

[ShiddySushi]

One thing to take note of is how it has been said before that yorick needed a rework because his kit at the time could break the game when they added new champs (in terms of bugs). So it seems Taric doesn't have any inherent issues other than not being that great to play, which would put him really low in the priority list for a rework.

[nikolavujic]

If Taric had better play rate, something that you refer to as the game staples
You would either fully rework him or nerf him to a place where he will become pro play only use ulti once win game champion
Which would be really bad for people actually liking a champion, Taric is OP in right hands and his kit is awesome but is more team reliant than some other champions hence low play rate in soloQ
He's mainly support that counters melee tank supports, but once you get stomped by him in top lane playing bruiser you get to see how powerful he actually is.
Dont touch good balanced heroes riot.

[ruby_]

Yorick still has so many bugs that it almost feels like he has a passive, almost

[dabrickashaw]

alot of words to say "we dont"

[OrbitalPulsar]

Silver Ex taric main here - the increase of mobility makes me sad bc we gotta auto to play him optimally, and to do that we stand still. That was okay when mobility wasnt as prevelant, and creep block was less potent.
Now though its just a lot to ask in order to get full use of the kit - often a whole fight happens juuust out of his reach, until late if i can get movespeed items.

[pjawesome]

I'm an avid taric player and personally I think he's awesome he's got such a cool play style imo so I really don't know why people don't play him more

[ForestBertrand]

I want old taric back. Big burst at cost of all your defense and damage was good.

[joshuabuhrer]

Except in the case of sion, where you took a popular character and absolutely destroyed his pick rate by basically deleting him